Buz Sawyers resides in Rowlett, Texas. He earned a B. A. in Literary Studies and his M. A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Dallas. Since 1993, he has taught seventh and eighth grade English at the Classical Center of Brandenburg Middle School in Garland, Texas, and currently teaches writing courses at Argosy University in Dallas.
Interest in his family’s genealogy and the discovery of the James Durrett Civil War letters, led to his motivation for writing the historical fiction novel, No Point in Dying Now.
The sequel, A Debt Unpaid, a western set in 1868 is fictional; however it gave Sawyers the opportunity to continue writing about the memorable characters he created in the first book.
Decades in Anadar, is a series of biographical short stories about growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the small West Texas town of Idalou.
Murder: Shaken, Not Stirred is a murder mystery, circa 1969, set on the campus of Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. A college student, James Bond, is haunted by a beautiful ghost that insists he solve the mystery of who murdered her twenty years ago, putting his own life in danger and on the run.
New novels, publication dates to be announced soon:
Shutterbug, political intrigue involving the assassination of a U. S. Senator from Texas that leads the FBI, hit squads under the guise of international security firms, and the Dallas Police Department all searching for the man that has the pictures that will bring down the halls of the White House, Congress, and the FBI if he’s not caught and eliminated in the next forty-eight hours.
John Doe, Mike Hammer move over, Harry Stumbaugh is the new private detective in town that’s tough, smart, and has more flaws than Monk. Senator John Doe is an amnesia victim from twenty years earlier and is being blackmailed by the Dallas mob one week before his run for the Senate. He hires Stumbaugh to dig and find the truth about his past. Is he really a thief and a cop killer or an innocent victim falsely accused because of his accumulated wealth? Stumbaugh searches for the answers as bodies and clues drop around him like rain from the sky, and discovers that his connection to the senator is closer than he likes.